[SOLVED] conky and images

arizonagroovejet · 10-20-2009, 01:38 PM

I can't get conky to display and image and I have absolutely no idea why. Can anyone point out why it doesn't work?

Code:

mike@continuity:~$ /home/mike/myapps/bin/conky
Conky: desktop window (1c000a8) is subwindow of root window (1a6)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: Unable to load image '/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg'
Conky: Unable to load image '/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg'
Conky: Unable to load image '/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg'
Conky: Unable to load image '/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg'
Conky: Unable to load image '/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg'
^CConky: received SIGINT or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!
mike@continuity:~$ file /home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg
/home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
mike@continuity:~$ ls -lh /home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike users 3.6K 2007-03-15 22:00 /home/mike/firefoxuserpic.jpg
mike@continuity:~$ /home/mike/myapps/bin/conky -v
Conky 1.7.2 compiled Tue Oct 20 17:45:15 BST 2009 for Linux 2.6.27.29-0.1-pae (i686)

Compiled in features:

System config file: /home/mike/myapps/etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /home/mike/myapps/lib/conky

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft

 Music detection:
  * MPD
  * MOC

 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * ALSA mixer support
  * apcupsd
  * iostats
  * Lua

  Lua bindings:
mike@continuity:~$ cat .conkyrc
double_buffer yes
imlib_cache_size 0


alignment top_left
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
#own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no



TEXT
${image ~/firefoxuserpic.jpg -p 20,20 -s 480x640}

nateb · 10-22-2009, 07:25 AM

That seems pretty strange. I just copied your .conkyrc exactly, put a random jpeg under ~/firefoxuserpic.jpg and it worked fine. Conky is compiled with roughly the same options here as well, though I think its just the imlib2 option that is important for pictures:

Code:

conky -v
Conky 1.7.2 compiled Tue Oct 20 04:46:55 UTC 2009 for Linux 2.6.31-ARCH (x86_64)

Compiled in features:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft

 Music detection:
  * MPD
  * MOC

 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * wireless
  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * ALSA mixer support
  * apcupsd
  * iostats

I would ask if there is definitely an image called firefoxuserpic.jpg in your home directory but you've already shown that. Have you tried some alternative images? Maybe conky is just having an issue with that one? Other than that I'm not really sure. Do normal text-only configs work?

arizonagroovejet · 10-22-2009, 07:40 AM

Yeah I've tried other jpg images, same result. I tried png images instead, same result. Text only configs include rss feeds work. I've since compiled conky on another machine with the same options and it works fine there.
The machine is doesn't work on runs openSUSE 11.1, the one it does work on runs SLED 11 (which is based on openSUSE 11.1). I'm planning to re-install the openSUSE machine with 11.2 soon so hopefully if I rebuild with that it'll work.

arizonagroovejet · 09-30-2010, 08:56 AM

I know this thread is old but I just encountered the same problem again of conky displaying "Conky: Unable to load image"

for no apparent reason and this thread come up in the Google search results whilst I was looking for an answer. Didn't find the answer via Google but did manage to work it out for myself: Install the package imlib2-loaders.

I figured this out by running

Code:

$ strace -o /tmp/conkystrace conky

then searching /tmp/conkystrace for the error message and reading backwards from there.

georgios.stathis · 04-16-2013, 05:03 AM

Installing the imlib2-loaders fixed the problem for me. It's available from within the YAST software installer. It looks that this library was missing and now the image files can be loaded.
Thanks!